Flatline wrote on Nov 17, 2011, 00:18:Aside from the unusually craggy mountains which feel like they were auto-generated (I'm fine with craggy, but some of those crags are Mass Effect 1 levels of random peaks), the art direction is among the best I've ever seen.

Seeing smoke plumes from the city change directions in the breeze, watching a wave of wind sway a valley full of trees, the fog/clouds/mist flowing over mountains and forming off of peaks, it's amazing. The small things get me too: I was in the north country near the Mage College and watched as the sun came out after a wicked snow storm, and within a few minutes water was dripping from the edges of cliffs.

It's still buggy (for some reason on the PC my weapons are mapped backwards: The left hand on the screen is activated by the right mouse button), and the quests are glitchy, and some of the enemies are the definition of cheap, but I keep coming back for the art direction. Finding waterfalls and hot springs and other acts of nature are almost more encouragement to play than the quests.

7 million units? now bethesda have no excuse to patch this game as soon as possible. Every Fallout or ElderScrolls have been plagued with bugs at launch. Until its not polished, I will not buy it.

The weapons mapped to LM and RM aren't a bug, or a mistake. If you started off playing sword and board, you'd expect your left mouse button to attack and your right mouse to block with shield, or if you only had one weapon you'd fully expect left mouse to attack with it. That's where it came from. LM = Main hand, RM = offhand. If you want to swap them so that left is left and right is right, then feel free.

PHJF wrote on Nov 17, 2011, 07:25:All right I finished the main quest up last night (or should I say this morning) at a final level of... 51. I've been death incarnate for the past twenty levels so I figured I'd stop delaying the inevitable. Final boss went down in about 1.75 seconds.

They do if you're dual wielding the same item, never tried to get different ones to work, but I'd hazard a guess that it's just one more button press at worst.

Not if you've upgraded them.

Upgraded, as in smithing? All my equipment is upgraded including the sword and dagger I just tested dual wielding with.

Ratty wrote on Nov 17, 2011, 00:55:I swear some of the NPCs are voiced by Garrett himself, Stephen Russell.

That's because they are.

Darks wrote on Nov 17, 2011, 02:17:You guys realize that you can hot key weapons and spells in this game with the key pad and the number keys right?

You realise that the hotkeys don't actually work if you want to dual wield, right?

They do if you're dual wielding the same item, never tried to get different ones to work, but I'd hazard a guess that it's just one more button press at worst.

Edit: Just tested and hotkeys worked fine for dual wielding different items. You can't set them to the same key, but swapping between a 2hander/bow and my right hand weapon via it's hotkey brought up both my dual wielded weapons every single time.

Quboid wrote on Nov 16, 2011, 20:40:One is taking advantage of game limitation to play in a way that the developers didn't intend (and makes you invincible) and that fellow players have no reason to expect to face, the other is taking advantage of a game limitation to play in a way that the developers didn't intend (and leaves you vulnerable) and that fellow players have no reason to expect to face.

Standing on a MAV isn't realistic or semi-realistic, it is exploiting the limited physics engine.

FTFY. Convenient that you left those points out of your oversimplified argument.

As for the last point.... Since when is Battlefield realistic or even semi-realistic? It's an arcade game with a military theme. Always has been.

Beamer wrote on Nov 16, 2011, 13:22:For one, having a Facebook account is normal now. It's a sign of a decently adjusted social person. Not having one sends off alarms of Unabomber.

What a load of complete and utter bullshit that is. If you don't have a facebook account, then you're a potential terrorist? Are you fucking serious?

Touting it's benefit as a networking tool is one thing. Suggesting that anyone who doesn't use it is in some way mentally ill just makes you a complete fucking retard.

And yet people do this all the time. Meet a girl in a bar? Before she calls you back she's going to google you. If she finds no presence she'll probably think you're somewhat nuts. If she finds a facebook page and a linkedin site she's more likely to think you're normal.

These days it's expected that you can be found. If you can't, people wonder.

Please stop pushing YOUR beliefs as though they are 'the norm'. No one gave you the right to speak for everyone else, nor is anything you say based on fact, but rather conjecture based on your own opinions that you're trying to project onto everyone else.

Even though mods and potentially higher res textures on the PC version is nice, honestly I'd rather have the console (360) version. The reasons are: play on a big LED HDTV (60"+), theater style rocking surround sound system, and sit on a comfortable couch/recliner.

Plus its made for the console, controls better and wont crash constantly like reports going out about the PC version. So of course you are making the better choice.

SirKnight wrote on Nov 11, 2011, 15:46:Even though mods and potentially higher res textures on the PC version is nice, honestly I'd rather have the console (360) version. The reasons are: play on a big LED HDTV (60"+), theater style rocking surround sound system, and sit on a comfortable couch/recliner. The large TV with great sound system is really the key for an amazing experience with a game like this. Plus, with the PC, you need to spend tons of money to make it run at full specs at playable fps. Now, I have already done that, but still, spending tons on my PC every year is getting old as hell.

I think I'll get the 360 version and pick up the PC version on a steam sale in the future (to check out mods and stuff). I am curious how the nvidia 3d vision setup is with this game. I plan on getting a new monitor soon (my current one is starting to act very weird) and I'm thinking a 3D capable one this time around.

'Tons' is a relative term, and you can very easily do the TV with theater style sound with a computer, while playing from your couch. You don't -have- to play on a small monitor, or with a keyboard/mouse just because it's on a PC.

Cutter wrote on Nov 11, 2011, 14:51:Anyone know how to dual wield with favourites? You can do it with spells, but I can't dual wield weapons without having to go into my inventory and doing it and it's frustrating. Also I'm surprised how much I'm using a bow as I didn't intend to, but it's hard to hunt otherwise so far. Hell, it's hard to hunt anyway untill I get my stealth up. Those elk just take off so fast from so far away.

Don't know weapons specifically, but spells you do the same as you do with the regular screen. Set both weapons as favorites, then press Q to bring up the fav list, left click on an item for right hand, right click on the other for left.

So far as I know you can't set it up so one click on a fav item will dual wield it. Same goes if it's two of the same item, just Q, then lift click and right click on the item and you should be good to go.

Kastagir wrote on Nov 11, 2011, 01:29:Has anyone been able to rotate items in your inventory when using the mouse+keyboard? I can't seem to figure out how to do this on the PC. Is a controller actually required for this? That would be crazy.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's hold RMB and rotate. I'd jump back in to double-check, but then it'll be sunrise...

Right-click (hold or not) equips the item. I don't see a way to manipulate/rotate an item on a mouse/keyboard setup.

I take a wild guess and claim in wild bravado that you should click and hold MIDDLE MOUSEBUTTON! If I'm right, I'm awesome.

Huh? Shift is toggle run, not Alt. It is strange that autorun is on by default and shift enables walk mode though. Have to hit Caps Lock while in a menu to get it the way it used to be. Also E and space are swapped from how they used to be...

Meh, used the wrong word I suppose. Alt is "Sprint" not "Run". The emergency, run even faster when you need to get away button. Yes shift is technically 'run/walk'. I'm thinking I may try and swap the two keys to see if that solves my problem (hopefully without creating more) but alas, work beckons so it won't be for a while.

Pretty damn enjoyable thus far. Obviously going to be hoping for a UI overhaul, because man... the shop interface is aggravating. Miss-click by a little bit and poof, back to chat, have to wait for the menu to open again, just frustrating and a silly waste of time to have a click anywhere but on the shop menu items instantly remove you from the shop.

Also, worst idea for bound keys EVER. Alt = run, Tab = inventory. Sooooo... when you're in trouble and desperately trying to sprint away and use a health potion? Take a guess what happens. So either turn off alt-tab while in game, or rebind one of those keys.

Speaking of rebinding, for the time being do not rebind the change viewpoint key away from "F". For whatever silly reason, it stops you from being able to set favorite spells/weapons/items. (which coincidentally involves pressing "F")

Other issue I had was that I was getting a buzzing from my speakers when using them which only happened when someone was talking, had to swap to headphones to get rid of it. Didn't bother to try and sort out what was causing it yet.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 16:35:WOW. Very underwhelming. The game doesn't look half as good as Black Ops. It is more like a MW 2.5, I like the setup of Black Ops a lot better. The environments are very pixelated and bland. Fire and smoke doesn't look as good. I have everything cranked - was a very bad purchase on my part....

Single player or multiplayer? I noted the huge difference in graphics quality from SP to MP in the game, SP I was surprised it looked as good as it did, some very nice lighting and decently detailed textures. Not on the same level as BF3, but not far behind. Then I saw the MP and went: wtf? It's like going through a graphical time-warp, backwards.

I notice he pointed out that pre-orders were a record, shipments were a record, and that map packs were a sort of record, but what's not said is just as interesting. There's no mention of a day 1 sales record. Does that mean then, that Black Ops out-sold MW3 day 1?

Perhaps they just don't have the numbers yet to make the statement one way or the other.

VGchartz is reporting 9.3 million first day sales. Not the most reliable source, but certainly an impressive number if it's true.